Last year, I called my Mom and tried making plans for Mother's Day. She told me she was going to Mexico with her boyfriend. Same story on her birthday. This year, I'm living two states away and I asked her if she'd come down. She would, except that she's going to Mexico. With her boyfriend. $^*@(^$(!^$
Then the boyfriend cancels. She changes the name on his ticket. To mine? Her daughter? No. My 10-year-old cousin. So, my cousin is spending 2 weeks with my Mom, in Mexico.. over Mother's Day.
Then there's the whole story of my goddamn broken uterus. It refuses to house a baby. So, I'm not a Mother.
I have no Mother to celebrate with.. and I have no child to celebrate with. And that annoys the fuck out of me. So I knitted this tattooed heart. And then I embroidered MOM on it. And then I triumphantly embroidered a line through it. HA.